What if martial arts didn't exist?

IPSC 😬 😬

I'm just kidding, obviously
it would probably be a mix of Muay Thai, judo, and maybe some jujutsu...

Handball

Alexander Long37 said:IPSC 😬 😬

It’s not a bad idea... 😁
What would you actually compete in?

Loyal to the HS 2000, or maybe just obsessed with it... lol

satter said:Just like the title asks, what would you actually train if your specific martial art simply didn't exist?

I honestly don't know. Maybe I'd pick up something else... maybe I wouldn't train at all.

Mixing Krav Maga with some Muay Thai... what could go wrong?

Powerlifting...
I mean, honestly, I don't even know where to start with this whole mess, because it feels like everyone and their mother thinks they're an expert now, which I guess is just how things work these days, but it's still incredibly frustrating to watch.

Latin American dances...

IPSC is definitely a go👍

Alexander Long37 said:Stay true to the HS 2000—or maybe just adapt it for the American market lol

It’s actually not a bad call, I guess.😉>

Aerokickboxing, or maybe something like Kung Fu—you know, one of those styles that's got a bit more aesthetic flair to it.

American football, or maybe just lifting weights... if you don't count wrestling, obviously🤣 🤣

Bad question. Probably Ninjutsu.

Karate is certainly the choice

I’ve already checked everything off my training bucket list. These days, I just stick to what actually keeps me fulfilled, but if you want to call it... triathlon, then fine.

Quick fix—instead of talking about Muay Thai, which is basically just a combat sport at this point, I meant Muay borati. It's more of a traditional art, though you don't really see much of it around here... Also, I'm pretty stoked on those Filipino blade and stick arts, like Perkiti Tersia, Kala, or Arnis...

Boxing, obviously...

I’d go right back to what I was doing before Judo—which is to say, absolutely nothing.

Didn't you say in that other thread that you've been training Judo your entire life? So what, even if you didn't have those specific skills... you'd still be out there practicing Judo? 😉Maybe it just wouldn't be called that, though. 😎

Jerry Thompson said:So you didn't mention in the other thread that you've been training Judo your whole life... meaning if this art didn't exist... you'd still be practicing Judo 😉 it just wouldn't have the same name maybe 😎

It's like some weird time-travel loop—full of contradictions. One of the core pillars of Judo is meditation (or "staring into the void"—if we're using the Dobroslavov definition). At this rate, I might as well say I was meditating until 1998 👍